AFL: 8,178th player to appear, 8th most games played, 10th most goals kickedFootscray: 580th player to appear, 35th most games played, 15th most goals kickedFitzroy: 954th player to appear, 15th most games played, 2nd most goals kicked

A superb kick and powerful mark, Bernie 'Superboot' Quinlan was one of the VFL's most
exciting, if unpredictable, key position forwards of the 1970s and '80s. A prodigious kick of
the football, he was also a powerful mark, and had impressive pace for a big man. Beginning
with Footscray in 1969 he played 178 games and kicked 239 for the Bulldogs before crossing
to Fitzroy in 1978. In nine seasons with the Lions, Quinlan produced the best and most
consistent form of his career, playing another 189 VFL games as well as adding 565 goals,
including centuries in both 1983 and 1984. The highlight of his illustrious career came in
1981 when, aged thirty, he tied for the Brownlow Medal with South Melbourne's Barry Round,
who ironically happened to be a close personal friend of Quinlan's. Few people were
surprised when, in 2002, Bernie Quinlan was handed the pivotal centre half forward position
in Fitzroy's official 'Team of the Twentieth Century'.